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Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty. Chris Christie
I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything Vladimir Nabokov
Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done H. G. Wells
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period. Brian Setzer
Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again. Stephen King
Alexander Dumas quote: "Be kind, aim for my heart."
Be kind, aim for my heart. Alexander Dumas
George Osborne quote: "I will listen to any argument put to me."
I will listen to any argument put to me. George Osborne
But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. John Knowles
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. Spencer Abraham
The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons. Christina Milian
Gary Barlow quote: "I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I..."
I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas. Gary Barlow
Michael Ignatieff quote: "There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever..."
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. Michael Ignatieff
And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out. Denis Norden
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Thomas Hardy
Even such is Time *Even such is Time, that takes in trust. Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days: But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)*These lines are said to have been composed by Sir Walter Raleigh on the night before his execution. Walter Raleigh